Do banks benefit from internationalization? revisiting the market power-risk nexus

Review of Finance

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1401-1435

  Buch, Claudia M ^a   Koch, Cathérine T ^b   Koetter, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

F3; G21

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878861221     PISSN: 15723097     EISSN: 1573692X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rof/rfs033     Document Type: Article

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